Decent quality 32" 4k monitors for work (and occasional gaming)?

[ik9000]

I'm looking to get a new monitor, well two ideally.

I'd like to be able to get A3 drawings on my screen at 100% with all the various toolbars and menus around them. So far as I can work out this means I need a 32" 4k monitor (a 27" 2560x1600 might just have worked but those seem to be rare these days, and 1440p doesn't look like it would be enough).

What would people recommend? I'm looking for an all rounder, but primarily work use - so colour accuracy, reliability and low eye strain are important. Gaming is only occasional these days, mix of FPS and RPG/C&C style stuff. Nothing too modern or fancy. Photoediting too, but my time to do that is much more limited than it used to be and it's not a core part of my current job.

I was looking at Dell U3225QE - does anyone have one yet? OLED burn-in puts me off going that route, so figured i'd stick with IPS. There seem to be faster IPS 1ms screens out there, but lacking the level of calibration and eye care this one has. A lot of them look ugly too, anything gaming orientated seems to be clad in angular plastic and RGB LED bars which I just don't want (or need).

The Asus proArt PA32UCG-K sounds amazing with its mini-LED variable backlight, onboard calibration profile storage etc but it's £3k and I can buy three of the Dell for the same money. I don't think I can justify even one of those, nevermind two (Sadly).

 

[Demon]

I'm looking to get a new monitor, well two ideally.

I'd like to be able to get A3 drawings on my screen at 100% with all the various toolbars and menus around them. So far as I can work out this means I need a 32" 4k monitor (a 27" 2560x1600 might just have worked but those seem to be rare these days, and 1440p doesn't look like it would be enough).

What would people recommend? I'm looking for an all rounder, but primarily work use - so colour accuracy, reliability and low eye strain are important. Gaming is only occasional these days, mix of FPS and RPG/C&C style stuff. Nothing too modern or fancy. Photoediting too, but my time to do that is much more limited than it used to be and it's not a core part of my current job.

I was looking at Dell U3225QE - does anyone have one yet? OLED burn-in puts me off going that route, so figured i'd stick with IPS. There seem to be faster IPS 1ms screens out there, but lacking the level of calibration and eye care this one has. A lot of them look ugly too, anything gaming orientated seems to be clad in angular plastic and RGB LED bars which I just don't want (or need).

The Asus proArt PA32UCG-K sounds amazing with its mini-LED variable backlight, onboard calibration profile storage etc but it's £3k and I can buy three of the Dell for the same money. I don't think I can justify even one of those, nevermind two (Sadly).

I've got 2 x U3225QEs in work (had them a couple of weeks) and use an LG 42C2 OLED at home..

The U3225QE is a stellar primary productivity and creative monitor, the 120Hz, Anti-Glare, auto brightness, calibrated (can view cal results from the OSD) and IPS black panel work really really well..
The HDR (Certified HDR600) is passable, as is gaming really, whilst the panel is only a 5ms GtG, and you can see some ghosting on the UFO Test, it's better than some IPS gaming monitors I've had, but it's obviously not able to touch OLED for its response times..

The Thunderbolt/USB hub built in is quite neat, I daisy chain two from my laptop which manages 2 x 4K @ 120Hz from a single cable, and whilst the Monitor can't quite high speed charge my Laptop (The laptop is PD3.0, the monitor is PD3.1 so will only give 100W to a PD3.0 laptop), its been great to have everything plugged in to the monitor..

Considering the colour calibration and very wide colour gamut, I am very impressed with it in terms of accuracy and ability to use it for pretty much anything, it is not a top tier gaming monitor, the blacks are good in normal light, but it's still an IPS panel at the end of the day..

However, as I have a 42" OLED at home which also does 120Hz and GSync, with excellent colours and excellent panel response, I do autohidedesktop icons and the taskbar, have a screen saver set at 5 mins and rotate my desktop backgrounds, so I do minimise the chance of burn in, but I am more 50/50 gaming at home or even sometimes far more gaming than productivity, I am OK with the mixed usage and am not too worried about burn in, none so far, but if I used it predominantly for productivity, it would start to worry me.